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US-China tech war

China’s AI hopes face fresh setbacks amid US moves to restrict HBM chip exports

South Korea’s SK Hynix and Samsung dominate the supply of HBMs, each controlling about 48 per cent of the global market share in 2023.

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Espionage

China says hi-tech study tours targeted by foreign governments

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Xiaomi

Xiaomi readies in-house mobile chip for 2025 in move away from Qualcomm

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Huawei

Huawei’s launches ‘most powerful’ Mate phone but keeps its chip a secret

As the industry looks to see if Huawei has again advanced China-made semiconductors, the company instead focused on its home-grown operating system.

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Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, unveils the new Mate 70 series phones in Shenzhen on Tuesday, but makes no mention of the chips inside. Photo: Weibo/华为终端

Semiconductors

Nvidia meets Chinese trade negotiator as fresh US chip sanctions loom

China’s top trade negotiator and key figure during Trump’s first term met Nvidia’s global business head amid reports of fresh US export restrictions.

25 Nov 2024 - 9:10PM

Apple

Apple’s Cook makes third trip to China in 2024 amid iPhone slump

The CEO lauded the importance of Apple’s Chinese partners at the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.

25 Nov 2024 - 3:04PM

US-China relations

Opinion | Exit America, enter China? How Beijing can benefit from an isolationist US

America’s abdication as the world’s sole superpower would open up a tremendous diplomatic and economic opportunity for China.

25 Nov 2024 - 5:57AMvideocam

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a meeting with Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on November 14, at the Government Palace in Lima, ahead of the Apec summit. Photo: Zuma press wire/dpa

China exports

As China’s vertical dramas charm US, soft-influence exports offer risks, rewards

Facing oversaturation in China, short-form video companies are finding lucrative new markets abroad, even amid geopolitical tensions.

23 Nov 2024 - 9:00PM

US-China relations

Changes driven by Musk biggest threat to China under Trump 2.0, adviser warns

Greatest pressure to ‘come from changes within the US’, Zheng Yongnian says, urging China to expand opening up as a countermeasure.

26 Nov 2024 - 11:49AMvideocam

SCMP Highlights

Recap | China rushes to stockpile US microchips, world-beating supercomputer: 5 tech war stories

Explore five latest stories on the continuing US-China tech showdown, from a scramble to stockpile chips ahead of Trump sanctions to semiconductor firms in Washington’s crosshairs.

23 Nov 2024 - 1:53PM

China is accelerating its efforts to stockpile microchips from the United States, as it looks to hedge against a potential wave of sanctions from the incoming administration of president-elect Donald Trump. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China relations

Trump nominates hedge fund manager for US Treasury secretary

Post is seen as important role to carry out what is expected to be a tough economic agenda against China.

23 Nov 2024 - 10:17AM

Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent speaks at a campaign event for Donald Trump Asheville, North Carolina, in August. Photo: Reuters

China’s Communist Party

China plans to have national data infrastructure in place by 2029

Draft guidelines stress need for a secure environment for data sharing, particularly sensitive information that may affect national security.

23 Nov 2024 - 12:07AM

Artificial intelligence

Huawei’s AI chips fill Nvidia-sized hole in medical research in Hong Kong

An AI research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is using Huawei chips to power its Cares Copilot model that helps with surgery.

22 Nov 2024 - 9:00PM

Artificial intelligence

China creates new AI advisory body, with Alibaba Cloud founder as chief expert

The AI Experts Committee is expected to promote China’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed.

22 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM

The creation of China’s AI Experts Committee was announced during the 2024 World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, eastern Zhejiang province. Photo: Xinhua

US-China relations

Can Trump, avid TikTok user and China critic, save it from a US ban?

Republican loyalty test brews as president-elect’s support this year for popular social-media app runs headlong into tough-on-Beijing vows.

22 Nov 2024 - 12:51AMvideocam

Donald Trump attends a gala at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 14. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

China trade

China races to stockpile US chips before Trump ramps up sanctions

As more US tech curbs look likely in second Trump term, China’s imports of made-in-America integrated circuits have surged by 60 per cent.

22 Nov 2024 - 8:59AMvideocam

US-China relations

Opinion | Could Trump’s popularity in China prompt him to temper the trade war?

Beijing’s sensitivity to public opinion and Trump’s weakness for flattery could have big implications for US-China trade.

21 Nov 2024 - 9:28PMvideocam

Science

Chinese supercomputer tops global computing efficiency list

Tianhe Exa-node Prototype tops big data category, as Graph500 deems energy-aware big data computing necessary for future industry.

21 Nov 2024 - 8:05PMvideocam

Tianhe, developed by the National University of Defence Technology, is ranked at the top of the latest list of the world’s most power-efficient big data processing systems. Photo: Xinhua

Alibaba

Alibaba CEO highlights AI advancement at China’s internet forum

The agenda at this year’s Wuzhen summit focuses heavily on AI, as China’s tech rivalry with the US grows.

21 Nov 2024 - 6:52PM

US-China relations

How bad is Trump commerce pick Howard Lutnick – and his tariff talk – for China?

Lutnick, a Wall Street billionaire, will take the lead on the new administration’s trade agenda.

20 Nov 2024 - 8:28PMvideocam

ByteDance

TikTok parent ByteDance offers top performers more stock options

ByteDance has adjusted its staff incentive policy for the second time this year, as Trump’s re-election boosts its valuation.

20 Nov 2024 - 6:30PM

A ByteDance office in Beijing. Photo: EPA-EFE

Artificial intelligence

China’s Xi talks cyber unity as US seeks AI ‘Manhattan Project’

In video speech delivered to the annual World Internet Conference, Xi Jinping called for ‘inclusive’ cyberspace development as US-China fissures widen.

20 Nov 2024 - 2:18PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers remarks via video to the 2024 World Internet Conference, which opened in Wuzhen on November 20. Photo: Xinhua

Science

How Trump’s first term broke decades-old tech barriers that troubled Beijing

Chinese team says in his first term Trump inadvertently broke down invisible barrier that had troubled Beijing for decades.

20 Nov 2024 - 9:27PMvideocam

US presidential election 2024

Elon Musk’s China ties ‘a profound threat’ to US national security: senator

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s business interests could be exploited by Beijing, according to testimony at cybersecurity hearing.

21 Nov 2024 - 1:16AMvideocam

Semiconductors

Beijing chip forum attendees mull impact of TSMC block, second Trump term

At the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo, industry experts weighed in on the challenges and opportunities ahead in domestic chipmaking.

20 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

Naura Technology’s booth at Semicon China in Shanghai in March. Photo: Che Pan

US presidential election 2024

Howard Lutnick named US commerce chief, will ‘lead’ on tariffs and trade

Wall Street CEO co-chairs Donald Trump’s transition team and was previously said to be in the running for treasury secretary.

20 Nov 2024 - 6:20AMvideocam

Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, speaks at a rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27, 2024. Photo: AFP

US-China relations

US advisory panel on China backs repeal of preferential trade status

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission says the status, conferred in 2000, lets China benefit despite unfair trade practices.

20 Nov 2024 - 7:27AMvideocam

TikTok

Trump’s win boosts hope that TikTok will be saved from a US ban

TikTok’s odds of surviving a potential US ban have increased, while ByteDance’s valuation has reportedly jumped to US$300 billion.

18 Nov 2024 - 9:00PM

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US-China tech war

The US and China are competing for supremacy in the suite of advanced technologies that will affect the means of future economic production. US efforts to curtail China's access to American technology are threatening to unravel decades of globalisation and interdependent supply chains and raising the risk of a confrontation that has been likened to a new cold war.

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9 September, 2024